Welles

[ welz ]

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(George) Orson, 1915–85, U.S. actor, director, and producer.
Gideon, 1802–78, U.S. journalist, legislator, and government official: Secretary of the Navy 1861–69.
Sumner, 1892–1961, U.S. diplomat and government official.

Welles

/ wɛlz /

Welles(George) Orson19151985MUSFILMS AND TV: directorTHEATRE: actorFILMS AND TV: producerFILMS AND TV: writer ( George ) Orson (ˈɔːs ^ən). 1915–85, US film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter. His Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) are regarded as film classics

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Nobody suggests that Mankiewicz doesn’t deserve his writing credit, not even Welles.

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Citizen Kane’s central figure is Charles Foster Kane, an avatar of Hearst played by Welles.

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She didn’t dispute that star, producer, and director Welles was a huge part of what made the film work, or that Welles himself was a genius.

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As FDR once told Orson Welles, “You and I are the two best actors in America.”

Orson Welles (1965) His Chimes at Midnight was a mash-up of the Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears.

In appearance John was a cross between Mama Cass and Orson Welles.

“I'm going to use several voices to tell the story,” Welles told Bogdanovich.

That old Orson Welles commercial for Paul Masson went, “We will serve no wine before its time.”

Mr. Welles ran for Mayor and, as there was no opposition, the before mentioned wags decided to have some.

There being no fan nearer than the office of Secretary Welles, she used a small whisk-broom.

Presented for the second time to Mr. Welles, he reiterated his objection, and again refused his signature.

John Welles, Warden, acted single to March the 1st, and then appointed the mayor to act under him.

Gideon Welles had for many years been prominent among political journalists as editor of the Hartford Times.

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